...Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A) Greg James, a global manager at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun), slumped on the edge of his bed in the company’s corporate flat in Paris. He struggled to even move after only three hours of sleep. James had embarked on this unexpected trip from Sun’s Santa Clara, California, headquarters six days earlier. With only a few hours’ notice, he had set out to meet with his entire 45-member customer implementation team spread across India, France, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the United States (US). He had already met with his team members in the US, India, and the UAE. France was his final stop before heading home. For the second time, the team had failed to respond promptly to a customer system outage as required by a service contract agreement. James had begun this trip assuming he would find a swift resolution to the rapidly escalating customer situation that had motivated it. Unfortunately, that had not been the case. James knew that if he could just make it to the gym, exercise would invigorate him and clear his head: “Five more minutes and then I’ll go.” Twenty minutes later, still in his room, he grabbed his laptop and launched his e-mail. Re: HS Holdings James scanned his inbox, reliving the events that had plunged him into this predicament. Six days earlier, he had received a string of e-mails, forwarded to him by his team. Rahul Ashok, service manager for the Mumbai team, was in touch with Praveen Devilal...
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...Oracle Corp acquires Sun Microsystems, Inc. for 7074.7 on 4/20/2009 a. Determine the structure of the transaction (merger, consolidation, liquidation of Target Company). Include the form of payment i.e. cash, all stock with exchange ratio, or mixed consideration. Source Forms-S-4, DEF 14A, SC 14D(Tender Offers) and Form 8-K) On April 20, 2009, Oracle Corporation entered a definite agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems for the amount of $7,400 billion. Oracle Corp is the one of the world's largest enterprise software company that specializes in the development of database management systems and enterprise software products. Sun Microchips Inc. develops and sells computer components and software relating to information technology services. On January 27, 2010 in the form of a merger, Sun Microchips was acquired and renamed Oracle America, Inc. Oracle acquired Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The whole transaction is valued at $7.4 billion and after factoring Sun Microchips’ net of cash and debt, Sun is worth approximately $5.6 billion. The deal comes right after I.B.M.’s failed attempt to acquire Sun Microchips just a few weeks earlier. Sun rejected I.B.M.’s offer bid of $9.40 a share, a decrease from its original offer of $10.00 per share. This unsuccessful attempt allowed Oracle to move in and make the winning bid for the acquisition of Sun in a move where Oracle believes will improve their operating profits of over a billion in the first year. Form 8-K:...
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...Sun Microsystems case 8-10-99 Sun Microsystems: Integrating its Own Enterprise Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick August, 1999 1 Sun Microsystems case 8-10-99 2 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 I. INTRODUCTION 4 II. COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT 5 III. BUSINESS STRATEGY 8 IV. ORGANIZATION OF BUSINESS ACTIVITIES 11 V. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IT organization IT architecture Business applications IT infrastructure Web-based applications Value added of IT innovations 16 16 17 19 20 20 22 VI. FIRM PERFORMANCE 24 VII. CONCLUSIONS 27 References 30 List of Figures Figure 1 Sun's vision for the future of networked computing Figure 2 Sun Microsystems' organization Figure 3 Sun Microsystems' extended value chain Figure 4 Sun's IT organization Figure 5 Sun's IT applications along the value chain Figure 6 Sun's profitability Figure 7 Sun's market valuation 31 12 15 16 21 26 26 List of Tables Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5 Table 6 Table 7 Table 8 Worldwide workstation and server market shares, 1992 and 1997 Worldwide Unix market shares, 1998 Illustrative large Sun customers by industry segment Sun's SG&A as percent of revenue, 1993-1998 Sun's IT resources Description of web-based applications by value chain segment Sun's comparison with industry performance Sun's financial performance, 1989-1998 6 6 7 8 17 23 24 25 Sun Microsystems...
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...Overview of SUN Microsystems Inc. Sun Microsystems I nc. (SUN) provided companies with complete information technology (IT) solutions that included hardware, software, storage and services. One of Sun ’ s competitive strategies had been to form global teams in order to provide excellent and prompt support to its client at any hour of the day. Greg James is the global manager of SUN located in Santa Clara, USA. H e leads a global team of 45 people composed of members in France, India, the UAE and the US. James ’ team serves Sun’ s enterprise customers in Asia and Europe. 1. Situational Analysis James’ s team faced a big challenge where one of their account, HS Holding has a problem of their entire system went down for two hours. It was a disaster for their online banking business. H S Holding support team had contracted SUN for support but nobody engaged their needs . They were dissatisfied with their customer services and expected prompt response from SUN. H ence, they are seeking a $300K service contract money return to them and threatening a lawsuit because SUN violated their service contract. Through this incident, James realized there are many issues existed among his global teams. 2. Organization and HRM challenges Being a multinational enterprise (MNE) has to face many challenges, just like James ’ team at SUN, they are now facing a challenge in people management . Managing a global team, they need to have a good system or procedures to guide the ir teams in different countries...
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...September 2004. Armstrong, Gary and Philip Kotler. Marketing: An Introduction. Pearson & Prentice Hall, 2005. p. 8-32. Beam, Jay. Interview by class. Athens, Ohio, 10 September 2004. Burrows, Peter and Jim Kerstetter, "SUN: A CEO's Last Stand." Business Week. 26 September 2004. “Business Quotes," Woopidoo Quotations. Cited 19 September 2004. Available from World Wide Web: (http://www.woopidoo.com) “Computer Hardware,” Hoover’s Industry Snapshots. 14 September 2004. Hoovers, Inc. Concerning Alleged Java Incompatibilities [online]. Cited 15 September 2004. Available from World Wide Web: (http://www.microsoft.com) Djurdjevic, Bob. “Analysis of Fujitsu FY04 Business Results: Back in the Black Again, But…Shrunk by the Marketplace and More Japan-centric Than 10, 20 Years Ago.” Cited 13 September 2003. Available from World Wide Web: (http://www.djurdjevic.com/Bulletins2004/B16_Fujitsu.html) Ellis, John. “What’s the Matter with Sun?” Fast Company Issue 59, June 2002, p.124. “Fujitsu and Sun Expand Partnership to Grow Solaris Market & Unleash New Generation of Innovations in the Data Center.” Cited 8 September 2004. Available from the World Wide Web: (http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-06/sunflash.20040601.14.html) “Fujitsu Chooses Sun Solaris Operating Environment to Enter Unix on Intel Server Market.” Cited 8 September 2004. Available from World Wide Web: (http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9804/sunflash.980409.1.html) Graham-Hackett, Megan. “Industry...
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...Sun Microsystems, Inc. Binary Code License Agreement for the JAVATM 2 RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT (J2RE), STANDARD EDITION, VERSION 1.4.2_X SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ("SUN") IS WILLING TO LICENSE THE SOFTWARE IDENTIFIED BELOW TO YOU ONLY UPON THE CONDITION THAT YOU ACCEPT ALL OF THE TERMS CONTAINED IN THIS BINARY CODE LICENSE AGREEMENT AND SUPPLEMENTAL LICENSE TERMS (COLLECTIVELY "AGREEMENT"). PLEASE READ THE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. BY DOWNLOADING OR INSTALLING THIS SOFTWARE, YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT. INDICATE ACCEPTANCE BY SELECTING THE "ACCEPT" BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE AGREEMENT. IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS, SELECT THE "DECLINE" BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE AGREEMENT AND THE DOWNLOAD OR INSTALL PROCESS WILL NOT CONTINUE. 1. DEFINITIONS. "Software" means the identified above in binary form, any other machine readable materials (including, but not limited to, libraries, source files, header files, and data files), any updates or error corrections provided by Sun, and any user manuals, programming guides and other documentation provided to you by Sun under this Agreement. “Programs” mean Java applets and applications intended to run on the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SETM platform) platform on Java-enabled general purpose desktop computers and servers. 2. LICENSE TO USE. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including, but not limited to the Java Technology Restrictions of the Supplemental License Terms, Sun grants you...
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...Running head: SUN MICROSYSTEMS CASE STUDY PROJECT SUN Microsystems Case Study Project Jeffery M. Anderson, 105225 BBA 3391-06B, Information Systems Cost Analysis Brief History of SUN Technology and Text Summery Sun Microsystems was born after Stanford University, Palo Alto graduate student Andy Betchtolsheim, conceived a UNIX based workstation he deemed the “68000 Unix System” for a networking project named Stanford University Network. Early February 1982 colleagues Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, and Bill Joy instituted the company SUN Microsystems resulting from the initials of Stanford University Network. (Wikipedia, 2006) Sun made its mark in the workstation market as the leader in the desktop performance competition by introducing the SPARCstation 10 system, the world’s first multiprocessing desktop computer in 1992. That same year they shipped more multiprocessing UNIX servers than any other vendor in their entire history of operation. Other major products contributed by Sun include the Solaris Operating System, Sparc Microprocessor, instant networking with Jini technology; which enables all kinds of devices to connect to the network—plug and play, and of course the famous Java technology. SUN Microsystems enjoyed 1.3 billion in revenues 1996 with server sales and topping out at 16 billion in quarterly sales in 1998 with the technology frenzied internet boom (Afuah & Tucci, 2003, p. 393). Java Technology Revolution: Java is by far the most widely used...
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...9-390-049 R E V. D E C E M B E R 14, 1989 A M A R BHI D E Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (A) The president of Computervision was on the line. "We like your workstation," he said, "but the deal with Apollo really is done. I don't see how you could change our minds." It was July 1983. The future of Sun Microsystems, Vinod Khosla thought, lay in the balance. He had to stop Computervision from signing a contract with Apollo. But how could he? Sun was a 40-employee enterprise, started just over a year ago by a team of 26- and 27-year-olds, that had just posted its first million-dollar sales month. Apollo, on the other hand, owned the engineering workstation business. Founded by industry veterans in 1980, Apollo provided high-performance workstations to Computervision's key competitors. Could Computervision bet its future on Sun? The Workstation Market Workstations, like personal computers (PCs), were designed to provide users with dedicated computing power. Historically, many users had shared the computing power of a single minicomputer or mainframe computer through more or less "dumb" terminals. Workstations and PCs, on the other hand, gave individuals their own CPUs (Central Processing Units—the "brains of a computer,”) at their own desks. There were, however, two important differences between workstations and PCs. First, workstations were designed to provide more computing power (close to a minicomputer's) and a greater variety of functions than were PCs...
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...Migrating Sun-based Oracle® Databases to Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers Dell PowerEdge 6450 and 8450 with Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server 1 Enterprise Systems Group (ESG) Dell White Paper 2 By Dave Jaffe and Todd Muirhead 3 dave_jaffe@dell.com 4 todd_muirhead@dell.com 5 [pic] Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Solution Overview 6 The Database Servers 8 The Hardware 8 The Software 9 The Application Servers 11 The Hardware 11 The Software 11 Migrating the Application 13 The Tests 15 Conclusions 17 Acknowledgements 18 Bibliography 19 Appendix A : Baseball Database Organization 20 Database Tables 20 Master 20 Teammaster 20 Batting 21 Pitching 21 Fielding 22 Sample Query 22 Figure 1: The Dell and Sun Solution Implementations 6 Table 1: Database Server Comparison: PowerEdge 6450 and 8450 vs. Sun Enterprise 4500 8 Table 2: RAID Organization for Three Configurations 9 Table 3: Oracle Database Layout 9 Table 4: Oracle9i Tuning Parameters 10 Table 5: Application Servers: Dell PowerEdge 1550 vs. Sun Enterprise 220R 11 Table 6: Oracle Pricing 12 Table 7: 4-CPU Test Results: PowerEdge 6450 vs. Sun E4500 w/ 4 CPUs 15 Table 8: 8-CPU Test Results: PowerEdge 8450 vs. Sun E4500 w/ 8 CPUs 16 Section 1 Executive Summary Following studies showing the advantages of migrating Tier 1 web servers and Tier 2 application...
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...JAVA: Cost cutting may not be the long-term EPS driver Sun Microsystems, Inc. (JAVA) continues with its resurrection of earnings by treading into positive turf and achieving an operating profit in FY07, the first time since FY01. JAVA recorded three consecutive quarters of positive EPS in FY07 and is now targeting an operating margin of at least 10% in FY09. However, underlying this growth is a scenario that bristles with complexities, and not everything is as rosy as it seems. For instance, growth appears anemic—sales are expected to rise in low single digits this quarter. And it’s not yet clear whether JAVA is making new money through open source or simply finding new ways to save money. All eyes are now on Jonathan I. Schwartz, who took over as CEO of JAVA from Scott McNealy in Apr-06; justifiably so, because Schwartz is not merely seeking to turn around operations by paring payrolls, reducing headcount, and restructuring. He has set out to redefine the way a company can do business in the new Web age. If Schwartz can reestablish Java as a credible trendsetter, it would make for one of the Valley’s more spectacular comebacks. We analyze whether Schwartz’s pronouncements of growth objectives match JAVA’s performance across sectors and whether the targets can be achieved by cost containment rather than revenue growth. We set out to gauge whether this turnaround is a temporary blip or a true resurgence. Management change and new objectives When Schwartz took over...
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...1 QuickSMA – A Stock Market Analyzer for Open Office Calc Pavalanathan Priyanthan priyanthanuom@gmail.com Department of Computer Science &Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Abstract— OpenOffice application suite is gaining popularity after the introduction of a more improved version. The supremacy of open source software relies on its support for vast amount of extensibility and customization. OpenOffice.org provides such support through Extensions - which include Components, Add-ins and Add-Ons. This paper is a study of the process of developing an Add-On for OpenOffice Calc which is aimed towards analyzing stock market data. Index Terms— Optimization, Stock markets, Share prices Further currently there are no such extensions or features exist in OpenOffice Calc regarding stock market analysis or option pricing. But there are sophisticated software available for this kind of purposes and also few companies have developed some Add-Ins for Microsoft Excel. This extension is costless and is easy to use; hence will be useful for those who are related to stock exchange especially to the investors, investment advisors and option writers. The initial requirement was further enhanced to create an Add-On which allows the users to do the following: use the downloaded stock price data to perform Technical Analysis using seven important Technical Analysis indicators such as MACD, RSI, Aroon Oscillator, Stochastic, OBV, ADX and Simple moving average, generate charts...
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...the accessory that best fits your life style : ◆ It is a safe place to keep the private keys to conduct transactions. ◆ It overcomes the deficiencies of the secret password. ◆ You eliminate keystroke with a quick, intentional press of the Blue Dot. ◆ You keep your computer at hand versus lugging your everywhere you roam ◆ You become part of the network economy ◆ This steel-bound credential stands up to the hard knocks of everyday wear, including sessions in the swimming pool or clothes washer What is Java Ring? A Java Ring is a finger ring that contains a small microprocessor with built-in capabilities for the user, a sort of smart card that is wearable on a finger. Sun Microsystem's Java Ring was introduced at their JavaOne Conference in 1998 and, instead of a gemstone, contained an inexpensive microprocessor in a stainless-steel iButton running a Java virtual machine and preloaded with applets (little application programs). The rings were built by Dallas Semiconductor. Workstations at the conference had "ring readers" installed on them that...
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...Scott McNealy founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 with the intention of selling low-cost, high- performance desktop computers running the UNIX operating system. These computer workstations found instant acceptance among scientists, engineers, and software developers who benefited from having dedicated machines, rather than sharing costly minicomputers or mainframe computer systems. Sun Microsystems did not have revenue from other sources to fund the research and development of its computer workstations. To develop a hardware-manufacturing infrastructure and to attract top-flight hardware and software engineers, Sun Microsystems needed hundreds of millions of dollars in start up costs as well as large purchase agreements. In 1983, Sun Microsystems signed a multimillion-dollar original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Computervision Corporation. Shortly after, Sun Microsystems signed large OEMs with Eastman Kodak Corporation, AT&T Corporation, and Xerox Corporation. The OEMs for which Sun Microsystems built computers that sold the workstations under their own labels brought the company strong revenue and profit growth. Sun Microsystems passed $1 billion in annual sales in 1988, just six years after start-up. Only Compaq Computer Corporation had reached the billion-dollar mark faster. In an effort to overcome some of the problems associated with networking different manufacturers’ machines while running different operating systems, Sun Microsystems introduced the Java programming...
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...Unit 4 Assignment: CUPS Printer Managment Linux Networking Abstract In an environment with multiple printers, each doing specific jobs or is capable of doing multiple jobs, have to handle management. In an office that contains ten or more computers with a like number of printers, it is pretty easy for things to get confusing for an administrator who doesn’t have the funds for a commercial print server. So the answer and solution can or maybe in the open source print management software CUPS. CUPS Printer Management CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is a fully open source solution for printer management. CUPS is capable of handling a few or hundreds of printers and CUPS has features that even expensive commercial options don’t have. Here is a short list of some of those features: • CUPS has the ability to send a print job to multiple printers so that if the first printer is not available, it can send the print job to the next printer down the line. This is great for rush print jobs in office environments. • An administrator can create printer classes and create groups of printers that have certain job and access requirement. An example of this would be a printer that is on a network that only supervisors can use while others who are not supervisors must use less secure printers. With just those two abilities mean is that a CUPS server can do what most commercial servers cannot do. CUPS provides a mechanism that allows print jobs to be sent in a standard fashion...
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...Exam 2 Review Chapter 4 -The components of IT infrastructure: computer hardware, software, data management technology( organizes, manages, and processes business data concerned with inventory, customers and vendors), networking and telecommunications technology, and technology services. -Two major types of computer software used in business: system software and application software. System software coordinates the various parts of the computer system and mediates between application software and computer hardware. Application software is used to develop specific business applications. -Cloud computing provides computer processing, storage, software, and other services as virtualized resources over a network, primarily the Internet, on an as-needed basis. -Mangers and information systems specialists need to pay special attention to hardware capacity planning the scalability to ensure that the firm has enough computing power for its current and future needs. -Example: BART(bay area rapid transit) speeds up with a new IT infrastructure. Oracle’s Peoplesoft enterprise applications replaced legacy applications. Used blade servers, grid architecture, and virtualization, increasing server capacity utilization to 50% or more. It demonstrates IT’s role in using resources more efficiently, reducing computer energy usage, modernizing services. -IT infrastructure: provides platform for supporting all information systems in the business. -Hardware: types of computers: mobile...
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